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From: bga@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Bruce Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: malloc under Lattice C V5.05
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Date: 12 Aug 90 08:25:03 GMT
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According to the errata sheet, malloc is type (void *), and that it should
not be necessary to put a cast in front of the return value.  However, when
I had defined the following fragment:
  char *outname;
 
  outname = malloc(SomeConstant);

the compiler gave me a warning that the malloc was not the same type as
outname, and I had to change it to (char *) malloc to get rid of the warning.
Am I misunderstanding something, or is the errata sheet wrong, or is there
something wrong with Lattice C (either in the include or compiler)?

Also, do I need to explicitly free any memory allocated by malloc before
the program exits, or does it get freed automatically?  It looks to me as
though it is freed when the program terminates.

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